The Artist No. 2
Saffron opens with a dry, leathery spice that snaps across the rose, turning the bloom into something slightly cured rather than fresh.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Rose
- Oud
- Sandalwood
- Olibanum
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron opens with a dry, leathery spice that snaps across the rose, turning the bloom into something slightly cured rather than fresh. The heart is pure oud, medicinal and camphoraceous, pushing the saffron’s leather forward while pulling a smoky resinous edge from the still-present rose. As the oud relaxes, sandalwood creams the composition, softening the tarry facets and letting olibanum’s cool, citrus-tinged incense float above the skin. The dry-down stays woody-resinous: sandalwood’s buttery lactones steady the lingering oud while frankincense keeps a quiet, church-bench smoke alive for hours. Projection sits at arm’s length for the first three hours, then pulls closer as a skin-scented woody ember. Cool autumn nights, dark shirt collars, and anything that benefits from a restrained but persistent saffron-oud hum fit best.
Scent twins
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